Sentences with phrase «racial equality not»

Founders Sam and Jodie Russell say their dating site, wherewhitepeoplemeet.com, promotes racial equality not hatred.

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Yet, after his departure, Kennan privately concluded that the U.S. government should not become an advocate for racial equality in South Africa.

While a majority of those surveyed believe that the pay gap is real for both women and minorities, not everyone understands that black workers — specifically women — see more obstacles to racial equality and barriers in the workplace.

What will establish Madiba's giant stature in history was not only his prolonged fight for social justice and racial equality, but his determination, following the end of the apartheid regime, that there would be reconciliation, not revenge.

That most Americans have not felt it as tyranny stems from the fact that most of us agree with the goals of racial equality.

Many of the current «young evangelical» writers grew up in the «60s, and could not resist the perceived cogency of certain cultural trends — for instance, racial and sexual equality, or nonviolence.

But it's the ideologies of identity politics that are being challenged, and rightly so, not the substantive ideal of racial equality.

Paradoxically, labor unions have gone further than any other group in America, not excepting the churches, to witness against racial injustice and try to secure equality of treatment.

Not surprisingly, the views on racial equality and whether it» actually achievable in this country vary widely among blacks and whites, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

«I believe that Governor Cuomo is not only working against the Democratic Party as the leader — who as the leader should be protecting and defending the party and its candidates — but I also believe that he is working against racial equality and minority opportunities by preventing Black and Hispanics from gaining positions of leadership in New York State,» Diaz wrote in his «What You Should Know» email at the time.

«I believe that Governor Cuomo is not only working against the Democratic Party as the leader — who as the leader should be protecting and defending the party and its candidates — but I also believe that he is working against racial equality and minority opportunities by preventing Black and Hispanics from gaining positions of leadership in New York State.»

Actually, to the opposite, many regimes explicitly derive their legitimacy from being committed to maintaining a social system that ensures inequality, e.g. Apartheid South Africa, the Confederate State of America (racial inequality), and Soviet Russia (in this case, the ruling proletariat class ruling over all other classes; the Russian Revolution did NOT attempt to create a state with equality as many think).

We know racial justice is a worker issue, that racial equality is a union goal: we can not win at work when race divides us, nor does fairness truly exist when some of us are profiled at home, targeted on the streets, and treated unequally in the courts.

Conference panellists Baroness Diana Warwick, chief executive of CVCP, and Sir Brian Fender, chief executive of HEFCE, made it clear that the Equality Challenge Unit will not focus solely on the gender issue, and that bolstering the number of women in SET will be lumped into a broader pool of discrimination issues including racial equality and power struggles between administration, research, and technical teams.

In an interview with Indiewire, the filmmaker was direct about the political implications: «You can get on your soapbox, you can push your political agenda or your religious agenda, against gay marriage, against racial equality, but you can't argue about these people in their home... Equality as a concept isn't something I think we ever achieve, it's something we make progress toward, and hope that we don't slip back and lose any of it.

That's true whether it's Spike Lee, reaffirming not just racial equality but also an empowering sense of black pride with Grand Prix winner «BlacKkKlansman» (his first film in competition since «Jungle Fever» in 1991), or Jury Prize winner Nadine Labaki, whose harrowing child - endangerment drama «Capernaum» calls attention to the problem of neglected children in Beirut.

«We are in an era when many people say they are committed to racial equality but don't see their own participation in racial inequality,» said HGSE Associate Professor Mica Pollock.

As a follow - up to # 1 above is diversity, and we are not talking about racial equality, although that playing field certainly gets leveled on live streaming platforms.

But I trust that as a democrat, the party that stands for racial justice and equality of opportunity, he will see that the right question is whether a public school is successful and equally available to all, not how it came into being.

When I served as student body president at AU and began working on the issues I had always cared about — gender equity, racial justice, opportunity regardless of economic background, and, yes, LGBTQ equality — it became clear that making a difference in the world wouldn't diminish or dilute my own pain and incompleteness.

But just as the presence of a black president in the White House hasn't ushered in an era of racial comity in America, Obama's cameo in the Biennial doesn't mean that the art world is a place of utopian equality.

Gender, race, and power have long formed a triumvirate in American culture, but the contested politics of the present day haven't been seen since the protests for racial and gender equality of the1960s and 1970s.

While their identity as black Americans is not the motivation for their inclusion in the show, this identity is nonetheless significant in that many found themselves marginalized in a white - dominated art world that granted limited admission to black artists and again within the Black Arts movement, which rested on a revolutionary ethos that saw abstraction as a site of established privilege, limited in its ability to express political dissent and contribute to the struggle for racial equality.

What it means is that climate is not isolated from other issues such as gender equality or economic and racial justice, because causality runs both ways: those who are oppressed in other ways are precisely those who are vulnerable to the worst effects of climate change, and precisely those who are least responsible for its occurrence.

Indeed, the values in section 15 — the equality rights section of the Charter — have been a factor in changing the face of the Court where judges — women and men of diverse backgrounds and racial groups — not only preside but feel welcome and respected.

Given that «equality» can mean many different things, and that its pursuit is often ideologically driven, this is not merely about ridding the profession of any lingering racial discrimination — a goal with which we think reasonable people would not take issue.

Trump's demonization of Mexicans and Muslims foreshadows an assault not only on the safeguards against racial discrimination developed since the 1950s (and which moulded our own equality laws) but even on the fundamental rights of the individual to freedom from arbitrary detention and punishment.

It is now 2018 and we have not moved the dial as much as I thought we would have by now on the issue of racial equality.

This did not amount to a failure to have due regard to the statutory need to promote, for example, equality of opportunity between different racial groups.

A relationship of racial equality is not one in which Indigenous people take their place, as just another interest group, among a vast range of non-Indigenous interest groups that might be affected by native title or other Indigenous issues.

Substantive equality on the other hand not only permits the recognition of difference but may require it where this is necessary to achieve equality between racial groups.

What this means is that the government, in line with international human rights definitions, accepts that racial equality is not always achieved merely by treating individuals or groups of particular ethnic origin the same as those who do not originate from that background.

This shift in the test is important because it raises the possibility that differential treatment that has a detrimental effect on an already disadvantaged racial group might be permitted through the substantive equality door even though such treatment would not be permitted under a formal equality approach.

Special measures, referred to in Article 1 (4) of the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, are remedial provisions aimed at raising segments of the community who are not equal to a position of equality within society.

This position is inconsistent with Article 2 (2) of ICERD which requires that where human rights are not enjoyed equally, then the provision of special measures are required to ensure equality is achieved between racial groups.

The RDA, while consistent with ICERD, is not a complete response to a state's international obligation to guarantee racial equality.

Ivanka has emerged as not just a key political adviser to her father — she introduced him at the Republican convention with avowals of his support for gender and racial equality — but also as the most public face of the family in terms of the future of the Trump brand.